Danish Arctic naturalist on West Greenland, eskimo missonary and zoologist, most well-known for his "Fauna Groenlandica" from 1780, but he also published a Greenlandic lexicon and a grammar, but after his return from Greenland to Denmark, his main occupations were religious, as a priest in Christianshavn (after having served as a priest in Drangedal and Tørrisdal, Nedre Telemark, Norway between 1775-78); his interests for natural science were however kept strong from his childhood. Nipponotrophon fabricii (H. H. Beck in H. P. C. Möller, 1842) and likely Serripes fabricii (Deshayes, 1854)] - Edit

Otto Fabricius (6 March 1744 - 20 May 1822) was a Danish missionary, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer of Greenland. Otto Fabricius was born in Rudkøbing on the island of Langeland, Denmark where his father was a rector. In his youth, he was largely educated at home by tutors. In 1762, he was matriculated at the University of Copenhagen. In 1765, he was admitted to the Greenland Mission Seminary (Seminarium Groenlandicum) where he attended classes taught by Poul Egede. In 1768 he graduated with a degree in divinity. He was sent as a missionary to the southwestern coast of Greenland from 1768–1773. During this period, he made enormous amounts of observations and collections. The facilities at his command were primitive to the extreme. His laboratory was an Inuit house made of turf. His only artificial light was an oil lamp. He had a few magnifying glasses and only one book was in his library, Linnaei Systema Naturae by Carolus Linnaeus. Nevertheless, he made enough zoological observation to be able to publish Fauna Groenlandica (1780), which was written in Latin, after his return to Denmark. Here, he described 473 animal species, 130 of which were new to science. Detailed descriptions are given, including information on habitat and behaviour, the vernacular Inuit name, what use inuit people make of the animal and not least how they caught or trapped it. In 1774, he was appointed rector at Drangedal in Telemark, Norway where he stayed until 1779 while he completed work for a Greenlandic language dictionary which was published in 1804. In 1789, he succeeded Poul Egede to become a lecturer in the Greenland Mission Seminary. In 1818, he was appointed an Honorary Bishop of the Church of Denmark and awarded a Doctorate of Divinity - Edit

1780. Fabricius, Otto. Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae Occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque; synonyma auctorum plurium, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum, capturamque singuli, prout detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe. xvi + 452 pp., 1 plate with 12 figures. Source - Edit

1788. Fabricius, O. Ueens-Muslingen, (Mytilus discors). Beskrevet. - Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrivter 3: 453-461, pl. [1]. Kiøbenhavn. Source - Edit

1793. Fabricius, O. Om nogle sieldne smaa Conchylier. - Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 4: 86-101, pl. [1]. Kiøbenhavn. Source - Edit

1797. Fabricius, O. Tvende forskjællige Færøiske Bløddyr, en Doride og en Søe-Nelde, opdagede af Sognepræsten Hr. J. Landt, nøjere undersøgte, bestemte og beskrevne. - Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 4 (1): 38-55, Tab. V [= 5]. Kiøbenhavn. Source - Edit

1798. Fabricius, O. Tillæg til Conchylie-Slægterne Lepas, Pholas, Mya og Solen. - Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 4 (2): 34-51, Tab. X [= 10]. Kiøbenhavn. Source - Edit